Short Stories By Franz Kafka

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: A Hunger Artist, the Cares of a Family Man, the Judgment, in the Penal Colony, Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk, Description of a Struggle, a Country Doctor, Jackals and Arabs, a Report to an Academy, the Stoker, Before the Law, a Message From the Emperor, the Vulture, the Burrow, a Fratricide, a Little Woman, the Village Schoolmaster, an Old Manuscript, the Helmsman, Investigations of a Dog, the Top, a Little Fable, the Hunter Gracchus, Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, the Refusal, the Departure, the Great Wall of China, First Sorrow, Wedding Preparations in the Country, Eleven Sons, Prometheus, Give It Up , the Next Village. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "A Hunger Artist" ("Ein Hungerkunstler"), also translated as "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist," is a short story by Franz Kafka published in Die Neue Rundschau in 1922. The protagonist is an archetypical creation of Kafka, an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large. The story opens with a description of an old-fashioned hunger or fasting-artist, who spends his time on public display, a caged spectacle starving for a cause or for art. He lives his life there, his ribs protruding, allowing young children to look, poke, and fear his awe, strength, and courage. However, there has been a large decline in these fasting-artists in recent decades. The fasting-artists used to persist in a cage lined with straw, watched over by volunteers selected by the public, typically local butchers. The artist disdains those 'watchers' who do not pay close attention to him and believe that they are giving him opportunity to sneak eatables from a secret cache. He sings to them to dispel any notions that he has any food, yet his fast-induced suspicion...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14535

98 pages, Paperback

First published May 6, 2010

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Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kafka truly was a gifted short story writer. Every one of these stories is a gem, some precious and some only semi-precious, but all are gems.

[Sudhir · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can I say!! It is kafkasque at its best!

[Kath · Rating 5 out of 5]

1904 - 1924. Includes the fantastic "Metamorphosis", where Gregor wakes up transformed into a huge bug. He tries to hide it from his family and locks the door of his bedroom, but they find out eventually. The story becomes comically tragic when he crawls about the room and over the walls and ceiling to comfort himself. He is cared for by his family at first, then they neglect him and come to hate him.

[Lorena Guerra · Rating 5 out of 5]

The judgement

The metamorphosis

In the penal colony

A report to the academy

A country doctor